UK: BBC survey: the experiences of disabled people in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic

"How has Covid–19 affected you? @BBCNews wants to hear from deaf & disabled people. What impact has the pandemic had on your health, your disability, your life? Share your experiences with us, it won't take long"

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/BBCDisabilityCovid19/

 

The Lancet describes it pretty well

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00625-5/fulltext

 

At least the BBC survey doesn't harp on and on about one's mental health, such as: "In the last 2 weeks how many times did you feel sad..." Creepy, fake, saccharin, and invasive.

 

Bit awkward though that every one of those things is a systemic problem unrelated to Covid. Sure, they are also relevant to Covid, but they are always relevant because those things were already failing and will continue to do so. Disable people constantly scream about this because no one ever listens or does anything about it because that's rocking the boat.

It's weird how that happens, people who point at a specific example of a systemic problem and think they're pretty smart figuring this out, but they always fail to see the huge forest standing right behind this tree they decided to focus on for some reason.

To channel Mitch Hedberg: medicine used to fail at these things, it still fails at these things in the time of Covid, but it used to always fail at these things too.